Aromatic Compounds

Benzene

There is another unsaturated hydrocarbon that falls into a class by itself. It is benzene.
Derivatives of benzene are called aromatic compounds. Although it is not
technically true, for our purposes at the moment, the benzene ring that will be described
in the following pages can be considered the functional group of the aromatic compounds.
Although that is not technically correct, it is a good starting point, and we can modify
that concept later.

In the pages of this section we will look at the structure, nomenclature
and chemical reactions of benzene and the aromatic compounds.